Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-09-01
A GOOD SAMARITAN.

'Oh, Sue, papa says We are really going
to Europe next month Won't We have
fun Wen go TO the 200, that those Eng
lish books tell So much ahont, and we'll
climb 10 the very tip-top of the pyramids,
and Wen 20 shopping In Pnris-just think
of it-and we'll see the Queen, perhaps. oh,
isn't IL too nice for anything p and she end
al In little scream of delight.
i think shall like the ocean best and
the whales, you know replied her sister
family, and WAS more of quiet little house
body than the rest Il shall sit and watch
the water, and oh, Alice, just thiuk of the
sunsets, without the least mite of IA house or
| hill between =
Il know said Alice carelessly, rs She
waltzcd with herself around the room.
'There'll be clouds though, suppose. Now
dear, don't moraliZe on that, and say that
the clouds are what makes the sunset
bright All care for is that we're going
we're going, and we are Ia sail on the Sa-
! maria just six weeks from tomorrow "
Why, how nice Then we'll all be-
Good ,Samaritans = aud Alice's laugh
rang out merrily.
Il don't know about the good part, said
Sue, puckering up her mouth in her funny,
solemn way. And hope there won't be
| any thieves on board. Now, Alice, let's
plan.
Here followed such breathlessly excit-
| ing discussion Of hats and dresses and WOOL
en- stuffs for the voyage, as only two girls of
sixteen and fourteen can carry on, when
fairly started. During the succeeding days
the library was ramsacked for books of
travel, and directions for the journey. On
the Sunday before the day of sailing the
minister added the last straw by preaching
from the text. They that go down TO the sea
in ships.
we shan't have 10 90 down. whispered
mischieyous Alice papa says you have 10
walk right uphill from the wharf 10 get ON
board
Sues face twitched little, but she looked
toward the pulpit harder than ever. You
couldn't make Sue laugh in church, and
when near the end of a long sermon, some
of the older members closed their eyes pla-
cidly, or knitted their brows absent mind
elly, and throughout the congregation there
was that subdued rustling of fans and lsilk
dresses, so annoying 10 speaker, the min
lister was always sure 10 find one pair of ser
ious blue eyes fiXei upon him, and one lit
tie pair of ears listening TO every syllable of
the thirdly and 'fourthly' he had penned
so carefully in his study. Iou wouldn't
have caught Sue falling out of window
while Paul was preaching.
Well, Saturday came at last, and won
dcrful day il was. The splashing, muddy
ride from their home To the little country
station on the Eastern railroad, the last look
at the red chimneys and the rounded tops
of the naples and clms all quivering with
the fresh growth al aprius and the rush of
sap through their vein, the stout conductor,
nodding pleasantly 10 the whole family, as
he swayed along through the aisle and
paused to punch their four tickets.
Guess you're bound off this time, Mr..
Raymond Thought l shod have 10 put
another car on 90 carry your baggage
1t was a curious feeling, this mingling
with the ordinary life of the other passen-
gers, buying the morning paper from the
same road in n few hours. while they where
would they be, when night fell ?
1T seems just like holding your opera
glass up TO one eye, and looking straight n
head with the other Sue confided 10 her
mother, nesting closer, and laying her cur
ly head upon her shoulder
Out of the cars, and into n hack, with an
| express team full of trunks numbering be
hind. Then the ferry, which was quite n
voyage In itself, with the great milky waves
rolling after them as they splashed across
| the harbor. In five minutes more they
were on the wharf in the midst of bales,
| boxes, teams, men running TO and fro, hors-
| es backing distractly, deck-hands rattling
along their noisy trucks, and, pervading
everything and everybody, strong odor of
| tar
Il told you so, laughed Alice eXcitedly, as
they passed up the smooth gang-way plank
and found their way TO the saloon. She
was in n high state of nervous delight, while
Sue, on the other hand, was feeling sober at
the thought of leaving home. She had new
er known how dear it was-even the old
tarry docks and'' warehouses-until half an
hour later, the last hawser was thrown of,
and the ship, with tremor from stern to
stern, began that thud, thud. of the propell-
cr-wheel which was not TO cease until they
should signal for a tender, off Queenstown
Harbor. They all stood upon the upper
deck, waving their hankerchiefs TO those on
the wharf as long rs they could see them.
BY this time the steamer had reached the
middle of the stream, and, heading for the
open ocean, was soon past the Outer Light,
with her journey fairly before her. Then
Sue felt the surge of homesickness come o.
yer her, until it seemed rs if she must fling
| herself overheard, rather than be borne off
| in this great, rcmorseless ship. And that
| little patch of blue water was to widen, wi
| den, until IL should stretch away, full three
thousand miles between her and home A
large drop trickled down her cheak and fell
upon her hand, which was helplessly clutch
ing the brass rail encircling the hurricane
deck. AS she turned away, her eyes blurr-
cd so that the great red funnel seemed rs
wavy as the volumes of black smoke that
poured steadily out Off
Sue knew what was the wisest thing to
do in such a case, and she did it. She look
ell about to see whether she could help COM
fort anybody else. Presently she found an
old lady, who was trying to adjust herself
with heavy rug, in one of those long
steamer chairs that are so hard to get into
when they are Strengthened out. Sue help
cd her, and then tucked the rug about her
feet so nicely that the old lady thanked her,